• Former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison for crimes related to a breach of her county’s voting system.
  • Peters espoused the false conspiracy theory that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden due to ballot fraud.
  • She was accused of allowing access to the voting system to an expert affiliated with My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell, a leading proponent of the Trump election conspiracy theory.

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    4 hours ago

    The funny part is, that she believes deep down, if trump wins the election, he will pardon her 😂😂

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      He can’t, they’re state charges not federal…she fuuuked and deservedly so. Of course unless Trump does win and he threatens the state AG I wouldn’t put it past him ffs. VOTE BLUE!

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    Everything Trump cultists accuse people of is just a confession at this point. There is no point in even entertaining these people. I hope she enjoys her stay in prison.

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      At this point, if something upsets them, it might be safer to assume it’s either a good thing or a benign one that doesn’t really affect anyone (but their “solution” sure will) than it being an actual problem.

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    It was actually pretty interesting to listen to the sentencing. It’s about 20 minutes. The judge goes through all of the options at his disposal and discusses his the rationale that he used to arrive at a prison sentence.

    He had the option of sentencing her to parole, community service, or incarceration. He then described her as unrepentant, the most defiant defendant the court has ever seen, and a continuing danger to society. He also discussed that he considers how a sentence will act as deterrent for the defendant directly (not at all in this case) and for others who might seek to commit similar crimes as well as punishment. He determined that Mrs Peters would immediately go commit the same crimes again given the opportunity, that community deterrence is important, and that punishment was warranted.

    He also went through her mitigating circumstances. He compared her circumstances to the typical defendant that his court sees and characterized her as extremely privileged with few mitigating circumstances and many aggravating ones. He said that she simply sought power, prestige, and wealth without a care for who she harmed. He characterized her as an unrepentant liar and a fraud who lied every chance she got including about why she kicked a police officer while on video.

    Based on his rationale, he decided that removing Tina Peter’s from the community was in the best interests of the community.

    TL/DR The judge didn’t like Mrs Peters very much.

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    On the one hand, I’m glad she’s going to jail. On the other, I’m annoyed ASF that her main conspirator, the mango Mussolini is still not only walking free, but running for fucking president again.

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    So many prison sentences in his wake- none of them are his.

    The hallmark of a truly innocent man.

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      She probably thought trump was gonna save her.

      Hopefully these are state charges so even if he does win he can’t pardon her.

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        I’d be willing to bet based on her defiance that she still does. Sadly for her, loyalty isn’t important to Trump….

        Only sacrifice is.

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        dude needs to go back to doing drugs. This republican christianity stuff is ruining his life.

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      Going to prison for 7 years, at 69 years of age. For a crook that probably doesn’t even know her name. smh. The charge should be treason, that’s what she did.

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    She should be glad that the cops didn’t decide to give her the Floyd treatment since she was at least resisting arrest, possibly assaulting the officer. They didn’t even make her get down on the ground or tase her.